Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nineteenth-Century America was uninhibited in joshing racial groups. Among its targets: Irishmen ("McCracken lost an upper lip, McCloskey lost an eye''), Germans ("Der nicest ting as neffer vas Iss valk dot Broadway down"), Jews ("Oh! what a show of noses, among the Sheenies in the sand"), Negroes ("A dark night, a nigger and a chicken, You can bet that they are mighty close friends"). Likewise open and to the point was it on the recurring theme of boy & girl. Instead of Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? It went to bat with...
...Georgia, were struck from the accredited list of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Reason: Talmadge's "unprecedented and unjustifiable political interference" in ousting top educators in last year's flimsy trials before a stooge board of regents. Gene Talmadge charged that the educators fostered racial coeducation...
Among the other points of great importance in the credo to which the students agreed are: (these are summaries, not direct quotes) There shall be no idea of racial superiority, and within countries all minorities shall give up some of their national sovereignty to a world organization. Raw materials, etc., shall be used for the good of all instead the benefit of a few. These three points may seem commonplace today, but think back no further than 1939 and try to imagine student delegates from a great majority of the nations of the world including the United States, agreeing...
...Southern Conference for Human Welfare, composed mostly of liberal whites, took a full-page advertisement in the Birmingham News-Age-Herald for an open letter to the President: ". . . There has been artificially created in the South grave racial tension. . . . Violent speeches filled with Nazi ideas and phrases are inciting race hatred and conflict. ... A widely advertised campaign to revive the K.K.K. is preparing the South for organized racial violence. With grave concern responsible Southerners are watching the subversive efforts of irresponsible politicians who for selfish purposes are endangering the nation's war effort...
...theory that Britain must dominate India because: 1) it is the bastion of empire and the bulwark of Britain's world power; 2) the economic standard of the British Isles is built on India's wealth; 3) without Britain's strong ruling hand, India's racial and religious groups, unable and untrained to govern themselves, will fly at each other's throats in anarchy, chaos and civil...